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Massive Vintage 48mm Breitling Chronomat 0818
I have twin ca. 1968 Breitling Chronomat 0818’s that are massive at 48mm and 14mm thick (weight unknown).
These two are in extremely nice overall condition with the white dial version being NOS.
This is a manual winding triple chronograph powered by a gorgeous Venus cal. 178 that keeps spot-on time.
These two are among my favorite pieces and get lots of compliments/ inquiries.
April 24-26 2020 WRISTSCAN: We've got Whales!
Let's see those giant watches! Please post on this thread, with photos, dimensions and weight, starting NOW! Best of luck to you all, mates! Cazalea Here's an Antoine Preziuso Tourbillon 65mm to give you inspiration (not my watch, not my photo, not a cont...
Vs the inspiration a tiny one...
the new Panerai Submersible Luna Rossa Carbothec, PAM 1039, 47 mm, not so heavy due to the case material... But rocking a heavy link to sea 👍🇮🇹👍 By far the biggest watch in my humble collection and the one which is on my wrist during this long period of h...
Dear Cazalea, thanks!!! 🙏🙏🙏 unfortunately I don’t have the right
weight, but later I should have a Zoom call with a Paneari friend to go through their novelties to be presented @watches
Dear Abel, you as usual so kind, thank you for your words... all the pics made only for fun with my phone and despite my wife looking at me every time like a UFO... 😂😂😂 not easy to explain to her...
always safe, healthy and happy!!! I wish you and your family a wonderful weekend Ciao Luca
My big pleasure dear Luca!! We all take these shots for the fun of it and our love for our timepieces. Of course those who view us making all sorts of strange things trying...
... to get the best angle or capture an unusual background for them think we are a bit crazy. After several years doing watch photography everybody in my family are already acustomed to my excentricity with this matter but of course it is not the same whe...
This guy is big...
44mm and 15.65mm thick... its plenty watch But allow me to go all Crocodile Dundee for a moment.. "That's not a watch... "THIS is a watch!!!" 55mm of big-piloty-goodness💪🙂. HAGWE Everyone ...
Big - bold - heavy. A real whale
with military training. Panerai Luminor 1950 destro. 47mm, 16mm, 138g ...
Big Bold Beautiful
(and I don't mean a husky overweight gal in her new queen-size underwear} Cazalea
Not many HUGE watches in my collection anymore
Had a big LindeWerdelin but you all know that story My two biggest watches are : A big Seiko . And a huge Tudor 🤷🏻♂️ HAGWE 🤗 ...
Size is 42 mm but it wears bigger .
Not able to weight the watch , sorry but it isn’t light
Thanks , that Seiko is one great watch . I have a collection of Seiko watches and when i saw this one for sale i just had to have it .
I bought it also on a bracelet but wanted it to be a more summer watch so I tryed it on a rubber strap . Have a great weekend
It's Not a Tumor!
With my 6.5" wrist, I can totally pull off the right 34mm watch. Vintage Tudor Small Rose, vintage Omega Sea Master, a vintage Zodiac Kingline. Sure, 36mm to 39mm is probably my sweet spot, and we can all wear a 42mm Omega Speedmaster Professional perfect...
Here's my heaviest...
Fortis B42 42mm x 15mm and 216 grams, almost half a pound. The heaviest and thickest I own, although not largest diameter. It's probably more of a tank than a whale and I treat it like one. It takes a lot of abuse as you can see by the wear. ...
we all have our own whale
most of you will likely say that i'm crazy but to me yes!!!!! the nautilus is a whale....that's the reason why i let my 5711 & 5712 go . have a good week end & stay safe ...
Whales can be beautiful too!
even though some of them can be a bit scabby on the surface ...
Dear Emil… Just what we have come to expect from you—a marvelous eye for color and contrasting materials. Wonderful pic! And a Fortis I had not seen,
blue bezel and all. Many thanks for weighing-in! FH
Not my biggest but my heaviest watch
Size 39,5 Weight; On my way to the cabin with my privat driver at the wheel 😂 (my wife): ...
Love the second shot, that what I call riding in style!!
I’m going to guess that your very comfortable ride is a long wheelbase Range Rover with the executive seats in the back that almost go lay-flat. Oh, and you’re watching Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek) on the television. You’ll have to let me know how I did 😀 ...
A blue whale - courtesy of Seiko
Hi All Here's mine - by my standards it's a bit of a brute. Seiko diver ( sorry I forget the reference) , but it was the reinterpretation of the SLA017 a few years back. Just glad I didn't get it on a bracelet! Final shot shows it as close as it ever gets...
Oh! By all means you should get it wet! It's so much fun to read the time under water!
And if my humble SARB can take it, then surely your lovely piece will laugh at the depths. Nice pics. Thanks so much for playing along! FH ...
Weighing In !...
Great challenge for WristScan this weekend Mike ! Size can be deceptive especially when cased in titanium ... Weighing in at 202 Grams... Let’s try some “Moonshine” .... Weighing in at 210 Grams... Have a great weekend friends and stay safe ! ...
Hi Nicolas...
It surprised me as I’ve never weighed any of my watches. I think in future I will take a set of scales with me the next time I visit a boutique ;-))
Two big weights you share here my dear Captain!! The Pilot Zenith is superb. I wonder which is its size case: 48 mm perhaps? No need to tell you...
... my feelings about the Moonshine: that´s a most adorable weight to have on the wrist! Have a nice week end my dear friend. Stay safe! Abel
Thank you Abel...
It was good fun weighing the watches. The Moonshine is an epic watch. Keep well and enjoy your weekend.
“Oh my God, you actually bought that?!”
Was my wife’s initial reaction. But I digress. I humbly submit for your viewing pleasure my positively whalian HD3 Idalgo XT-2 which measures in at a portly 62mm by 52mm. This is 3.2 times larger than a 36mm Calatrava, thus proving if there was ever a par...
Wow, just...WOW
And yet, I like it! I've considered a Devon Tread 1 many times over the past few years but I'm worried about serviceability. Photo credit Feldmar Watch Company website ...
Here's a real TREAD ON ME
Cazalea (my wife ready to take it off my wrist and toss it back to the salesperson with "NO, HE WON'T BUY THAT!" The political flag is unrelated to the Tread watch (I think) ...
There's a gold one for sale on eBay right now
It's not Amazonium, but still ... www.ebay.com
Wow NickO!! That´s an awesome watch with an amazing history behind. You had good reasons to buy it...
... very similar good reasons as in my case when I bought my Big Egiziano: "just because we like it so much" and even if we wear them little ... and in my case only within the walls of my home. My Big Panerai gives me much pleasure to own it, when I view ...
I heard the Elves of Rivendell took a job at the Hodinkee shop
In all seriousness, that's the best writeup I've read easily all year!👏👊
Holy Balaena, Batman! How I wish I had a Face2Face or at least a Millenary to set alongside! Gosh, I've never…. But I'm such a relative newcomer here...
As has been seen, Mike and Emil were all over this! And I'm honored to be in your company. Wonderfully entertaining writer you are, as well. Many thanks! FH
That dial design reminds me of the Dali Lama birthday joke: (as he opens his present) "Oh, boy! My favorite! Nothing!" I think its truly stunning, and made the
more so by the wide bezel which broadens it substantially. I didn't know this before. Thanks for enlightening me! FH
De Beautiful De Bethune
Measuring a svelte 44mm and weighing in at a scant 106 grams. Not so big, but a whale of a presence. Ya? ...
Awesome one!
Those lugs look beautiful, as is the dial and hands. They work very well together from a design language perspective
Thar she blows!
Well, maybe a pygmy whale... Diam.: 45mm Height: 14.5mm Weight: 97g (without strap and buckle) ...and as a bonus: a whole pod! 4 over 44mm ...
Possibly - especially since the Zenith has a titanium caseback (and presumably a lot of air around the El Primero movement inside). ;-) [nt]
Actually, 110g for the GO, with strap and clasp.
Me too, but I attribute it to the Ti caseback and buckle - and the comparatively tiny El Primero inside.
Also, I'm not sure how the density of bronze compares to SS, much less gold or platinum. OK, took the time to look it up, and bronze and SS aren't too far off in density - though both variable, based upon the exact alloy.
Thank you! Given that I'm not that big a guy, I'm not sure how I wound up with four 44mm+ watches, but I enjoy them all.
They all fit with some of my (7" - 7 1/8") wrist showing past the lugs. That could be because they all have short, sharply downward-turning lugs that hug the wrist - even the Zenith.
Whale
These pictures are of Speedwing's watches-he had trouble uploading so I offered to lend him a hand. He owns these Oceanographic watches as pictured here, 1000M titanium, 4000M titanium, 4000M carbon, and a 1000M Carbon in addition that isn't pictured. The...
Here's my heaviest (a platinum Patek 5131) and thickest (a steel Rolex Deepsea)...the nicest part was to figure out the measurements though, since they are both locked up in Italian banks...
...while I'm locked up (in a house) in the United States! ;-) So I resorted to google, and entering "Patek 5131p weight" gives you back 241.8 grams, taken from a watch blog. I just saw that Fram gave a slightly lower number for his 5131P, and I'm sure my ...
A good play, FabR. But really… For me the enamel beauty blinds me to just about any other watch I could name. I knew your Italian coastline city piece. But
this! This is a favorite among favorites. Heartiest congratulations! My-oh-my…. FH
Thanks Fred! For obvious reasons, the 5177G 'Boccadasse' remains my favorite, but I do love the 5131P...
...its dial is indeed outstanding (though less elaborate than other enamel works), and I also like the originality of it being the first-ever Patek rare handcraft in platinum, an excellent choice. Cheers ;-)
Massive Vintage 48mm Breitling Chronomat 0818
I have twin ca. 1968 Breitling Chronomat 0818’s that are massive at 48mm and 14mm thick (weight unknown). These two are in extremely nice overall condition with the white dial version being NOS. This is a manual winding triple chronograph powered by a gor...
Brilliant! Twins (though not identical)! And what a pair. What more does one need but one black-dialed watch, and one white-dialed one? And with those two
slide rules you ought to be able to figure out precisely how many planetary bodies may actually collide when Andromeda collides with the Milky Way in roughly 4.5 billion years! HAGWE! FH
Hello dear Mike! What an interesting Theme you choose for this week end!! Whales are wonderful creatures and Big Whale watches are truly awesome...
... Though my preference in watches is usually around the 38/40 mm diameter cases, I adore Panerai and "forgive" their big size as I consider it part of their DNA and heritage. Taking a look into my collection, I find that through the years I have discove...
Perhaps the PAM would "nestle in" to Shaq's wrist do you think? After all, his shoe size is 22 (and that's not European)! As he says in the Buick commercial, "My shoes
bigger than some hybrids!" Whatever…. My favorite part are the raised pedestals at 15, 30, 45. They look like a Swiss Army invention to be used like a block & tackle! Well played (as usual) Subex! Regards, FH
And thar she blows!...
The Egiziano on wrist, supplied to order. Many thanks Abel! Cheers, pplater.
My Linde Werdelin is a large watch...
44mm and 15.65mm thick... its plenty watch But allow me to go all Crocodile Dundee for a moment.. "That's not a watch.. "THIS is a watch!!!" 55mm of Big-Piloty-Goodness💪🙂 HAGWE Everyone! ...
Thank you, Abel
Your Egiziano makes my Pilot look demure... such a cool piece I've been lucky to try on a few times
Stowa, actually
True, the Stowa and Laco look identical until you crack open the caseback. I happen to think the Stowa movement is prettier ...
A big call out to the guy who literally invented this category...
...El Bim - last seen lurking in the Automotive forum. Here's Bim's Zenith in one of his photos from circa 2010: Cheers, pplater. ...
I remember that pic . . .
. . . but it couldn't have been ten years ago. Seems like last week . . .
I did this one about 10 years ago
it might have been in response to his or vice versa -- I never could settle on the right strap though ... ...
I love this 70s Omega ....
Designed in an era of futuristic possibilities and opportunity.
After acquiring a 910 for your own collection, my highest recommendation would be . . .
. . . sourcing this Flightmaster study. Filled with Flightmaster lore, and well worth every moment spent reading. Art PS - my brother is ordering a copy of Daltrey's book from Amazon. ...
I love your Whale FM dear Art! Here its ...
South American brother says hello! It has been controlling its weight lately! 😄😄😄 Receive my big bear hug and best wishes my dear friend! Abel ...
I'll always remember 2019 fondly as the year . . .
. . . we engaged in your Flightmaster acquisition and restoration as well as pplater's Tasmanian cue project. 😊
My biggest
Linde Werdelin Hard Black II. At 46mm this is a big as it will get on my small wrist. ...
Richard -- that thing is massive!
How do you lift your arm off the table? OR do you just wear it for arm wrestling? ...
A little of both. LOL! It gives me an edge ;-)
This is with the matching bracelet. I prefer it on either the rubber strap or the leather one as it’s significantly lighter and more comfortable. ...
Pretty sure we have similar wrists, Richard . . .
. . . but there's no way I could carry off that LW. The Flightmaster is overpowering as it is . . .
You’d be surprised as I was
The integrated short lugs make this easy to wear. In fact I’d say it wears similar to, maybe even slightly more comfy than the Seamaster Diver 300 which is 4mm smaller on paper. I dare say it’s thinner too. Should be about the same as the Flightmaster I s...
Now… That's just a great watch—and a marvelous picture, by the way. I've always wished that it didn't have all that text on the chapter ring, though. But as I
am wont to say, "If that appeared in my Christmas stocking…." Great post. Thanks! FH
"You don't understand… I coulda been a contender, I coulda been somebody…." Marlon Brando to Rod Steiger, On The Waterfront, 1954
But alas, fellow Purists, having been charged with judging your submissions the following contribution is made only to encourage those of you who have not yet joined this week’s contest. C’mon! Nobody out there with an Ennebi Fondale Bronzo? (A logical ex...
Kinda big for the late 60’s / early 70s:
All circa 42mm across: And this one is reasonably weighty: Cheers (Temporally non) Nomad ...
LOVE that Zodiac! Wow! I think this is the definition of "period piece." Many thanks for your contribution. BTW, we'll all be amply rewarded by staying put for
the time being. One more sunrise is worth it all for me. Best regards! FH
I remember a quote from comedian Phyllis Diller
Nobody cares if someone reaches their 92 birthday, except the person who’s 91 and 11 months
Not an easy topic for me...
So my entries will be comparably dainty 😉 The largest is probably the 45mm PADI Turtle... The heaviest is probably the Doxa Searambler, as it’s still on a bracelet (sorry, weighing them is not realistic at the moment with the kids running riot). And then ...
Ohhh! The uber-cool strap on your PADI must surely win you something! (At least in my eye.) And all of your watches superbly photographed KM—as per
usual. And all so tasteful. Even the Casio is actually subtle! Hat's off! FH
A Pod of Whales
Sorry for the mix of pics but it’s hard to get the pod in one place... they are social distancing at the bank... here a few of the larger whales in the pod. 42mm up to 60mm the heaviest being the AP brick at 350 grams ...
